Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
JAMES C. COLLINSDiscipline is consistency of action.
More James C. Collins Quotes
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Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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